Michael Gerber Quotes

• Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

  Michael Gerber

  People, Ordinary, Achieve

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• Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.

  Michael Gerber

  Running, People, Function

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• If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.

  Michael Gerber

  Jobs, Your Presence, Ifs

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• Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

  Michael Gerber

  Entrepreneur, Failing

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• Systems run the business and people run the systems.

  Michael Gerber

  Running, People

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• Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

  Michael Gerber

  People, Ordinary, Great Business

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• If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!

  Michael Gerber

  Jobs, World, Worst

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• I believe the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.

  Michael Gerber

  Believe, Differences, People

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• You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

  Michael Gerber

  Inspirational, Order, Vision

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• The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

  Michael Gerber

  Business, Mistake, Decision

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• The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities.

  Michael Gerber

  Opportunity, People, Decision

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• The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.

  Michael Gerber

  Business, Happens

  Michael E. Gerber (2009). “Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

  Michael Gerber

  Practice, People, Vision

  "The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It" by Michael Gerber as quoted in "50 Prosperity Classics" by Tom Butler-Bowdon, (p. 133), 2010.

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• If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything?

  Michael Gerber

  Ifs

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• The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

  Michael Gerber

  People, Cost, Matter

  Michael E. Gerber (2009). “The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth are you going to live it?

  Michael Gerber

  Wish, Earth, Clear

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• The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

  Michael Gerber

  Failure, Thinking, Insatiable Need

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• Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.

  Michael Gerber

  Passion, Commitment, Practice

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• What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true?

  Michael Gerber

  Dream, Scripts, Aim

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• What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?

  Michael Gerber

  Goal, Progress, Gone

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• A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

  Michael Gerber

  Business, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

  Michael E. Gerber (2009). “Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the true combat in a dojo is not between one person and another as most people believe it to be. The true combat in a martial arts practice hall is between the people within ourselves.

  Michael Gerber

  Art, Believe, Practice

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